Army Specialist Jordan Acosta thinks his family would have been more comfortable seeing him deploy to Iraq than this field hospital in the U.S. city of Seattle, one of the hardest-hit by the coronavirus.
A practical nurse specialist with a four-month-old baby at home, Acosta is part of the team of hundreds of U.S. soldiers setting up a field hospital in Seattle that will treat non-coronavirus patients, relieving pressure on civilian hospitals.
Starting next week, the goal is to have around 250 hospital beds available to patients served by a large intensive care operation, which Acosta will help staff. The deployments are coming as the military itself is grappling with infections in its ranks at bases around the world — and even on an aircraft carrier, whose commander has accused the Navy of failing to do enough to protect its sailors. [nL1N2BO1IG]
One big difference he sees with Seattle is the effort to give civilian patients a bit more privacy, putting up partitions between the beds. Screening protocols are meant to weed out patients with the virus and direct them to civilian hospitals instead.He recalled how in Afghanistan he would visit field hospitals almost every other night and give out Purple Heart decorations to soldiers wounded in combat.
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